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Poems for the Millennium, Volume Two: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, From Postwar to Millennium
J Ed Rothenberg
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Description for Poems for the Millennium, Volume Two: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, From Postwar to Millennium
Paperback. Intends to bring together the poets and poetry movements that radically altered the ways that art and language express the human condition. This work offers a chronicle of the second 'great awakening' of experimental poetry in the twentieth century. It provides informative and irreverent commentaries throughout. Editor(s): Rothenberg, Jerome; Joris, Pierre. Num Pages: 912 pages, 41 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1360.
As we come to the beginning of a new century, we find that the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. "Poems for the Millennium" captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today it reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of contemporary poetry. International in its coverage, these volumes bring together the poets and poetry movements that radically altered the ways that art and language express the human condition. Volume 2 offers a dazzling chronicle of the second 'great awakening' of experimental poetry in the twentieth century. Ranging from the period of World ... Read more
As we come to the beginning of a new century, we find that the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. "Poems for the Millennium" captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today it reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of contemporary poetry. International in its coverage, these volumes bring together the poets and poetry movements that radically altered the ways that art and language express the human condition. Volume 2 offers a dazzling chronicle of the second 'great awakening' of experimental poetry in the twentieth century. Ranging from the period of World ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
912
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Weight
1359g
Number of Pages
912
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520208643
SKU
V9780520208643
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About J Ed Rothenberg
Jerome Rothenberg is a poet and one of the world's leading anthologists. His more than fifty books include Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania (California, 1985). He is Professor of Visual Arts and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Pierre Joris is a poet and has published over twenty ... Read more
Reviews for Poems for the Millennium, Volume Two: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, From Postwar to Millennium
"Presenting an astonishing amount of exciting poetry—as did Volume I: From Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude—this collection freely crosses national and aesthetic boundaries. . . . As an introduction to the many avant-gardes of the second half of the century, and a revision of current thinking about canonization—the 'what's in' and 'what's out' of mainstream anthologies—the value of this international gatecrasher cannot ... Read more